When looking for academic journal articles you can use the 'everything' search in Library Search or search directly in the databases below, which we’ve selected as being most relevant to your subject area.
Databases are the best place to find academic journal articles as they offer advanced search tools, metric data, and export options for referencing. These databases also often provide access to information types such as conference papers, book chapters, review articles, trade magazines, and more. BrowZine can also be used to explore e-journal titles in your subject.
While most of our collection is now available digitally, some titles may only be accessible in print. You can find these journal titles using an ‘everything except articles’ search in Library Search.
You’ll also find links to essential reading for your programme in your module reading lists on Canvas.
Key Databases and E-journal Collections
Databases will either provide you with the full text of the journal or they will give you the bibliographic details of an article. Where full text is not available, look for the
link and follow this to see if we have the full text available via Library Search.
Subject databases
Subject databases are tailored to particular subject areas. They tend to use precise terminology relating to the subject area, making searches more accurate, and can include subject specific tools and features.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical Abstracts is a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest XML) This link opens in a new windowAbstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowIndexes books and articles published about modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Links to full text where available.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies (Association for Asian Studies) This link opens in a new windowThis online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies contains 860,000 records on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast and South Asia, published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
- CNKI China Academic Journals This link opens in a new windowSearchable database providing full-text access to approximately 2.8 million articles in journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities subject areas. Subscription covers F (Literature, History, Philosophy), G (Economics, Politics, Law), H (Education, Social Sciences) and J (Economics/Management)
- Chinese social science journalsOver 700 Chinese language journals freely available via the National Social Sciences database.
- Pascal and FrancisTwo French databases which provide access to 14 million bibliographic records of research articles and conference papers (no longer updated after 2015).
- PerséeFrench database enabling you to search thousands of open access scholarly publications, including journals, books and conference proceedings.
- BDSL onlineBibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft is an international bibliography of German literature and literary studies.
- Germanistik im NetzVirtual library of German language and literature studies.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new windowThe Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latin American StudiesOxford Bibliographies Online provides access to a comprehensive collection of articles published and reviewed by academics covering Latin American Studies.
- Bibliography of Interpreting and Translation (BITRA)Database with over 85,000 entries (books, chapters, articles, journals, dissertations). Updated every month and available in 15 languages.
Multidisciplinary databases
Much like Library Search, multidisciplinary databases cover a wide range of topics and are a great place to scope your search, or to use if your topic covers more than one subject area.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is a large, multidisciplinary database, which indexes peer reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and trade publications. It provides cited reference searching, so you can navigate forward and backward through the literature to uncover all the information relevant to your research and set up citation alerts. Other useful tools include citation overviews, author and affiliation searching, visual analysis of search results and a journal analyser and author identifier tools (if you are interested in publishing work).
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